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Rafa didn't want him. Nevertheless, he was bought and his failure to fit in proved Benitez right that Keane wasn't what we needed.

This, coupled with the Chelsea win, must surely mean that the board are going to give Rafa the power he wants in terms of transfers.

Hopefully Rafa will hold his tongue a little bit in the next few months and then everything will be sorted - then we can settle back down to the wonderful team we were at the start of the season; only now, unlike then, we have Fernando.

As wrightylew says we got to the top of the league without Torres (remarkable as we are supposedly a two man team) and with Keane completely failing to lead the line. Selling him was definitely the right decision, and I'm glad we didn't panic buy and overspend in the January transfer window.